Walk Sunday 8 January Pico Huenes

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This week we had two walks organised to kick off the 2017 season. The first one, on Friday, was a fun walk to the Conchar mosto fiesta. Once again I don’t remember much about it other than we had a good time and staggering home afterwards. Oh!! and I seem to remember Mike once again doing his mountain rescue thing and turning out to recover another stranded Limper. Next year I think we will cancel our insurance and just keep Mike on a retainer.
 Our second walk of the week was on Sunday, and we had a fabulous walk up Pico Huenes. The walk started from the Sevilla carpark above Cumbres Verde. It was considerably warmer here at +4 degrees than when we had met up at Cozvijar, where everyone appeared to be reluctant to get out of their cars, even Jan and Martine had kept their engine running.
For the first few kms the route follows a gently rising path in the shade, on the cool side of the hill, where gloves and jackets were the required apparel. After finding a patch of sun we stopped for a quick break before resuming the walk, this time climbing up to the summit of Huenes. It comes as a shock after walking in the forest, with views over Granada, to find yourself looking up to the snow covered slopes of the Sierra Nevada. You could see hundreds of cars queueing to get into the resort. Cetursa is reporting the best ever Christmas period, with over 194,000 visitors.
We stopped on the summit of Huenes for lunch, surrounded by tonnes of goat poo, but even that could not diminish the superb views in warm sunshine under a ultramarine sky. Magnificent does not come close to describing it.
 After lunch we returned to the path and headed downhill back to the carpark, and then on to the bar for refreshment.
A stunning day out enjoyed by all 17 of us.
Can I pass on all our best wishes to all of the group who are still on sick leave, we wish you all a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing you soon.
    

We walked 13.3 km and climbed 593 metres

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